How to Use on average in a Sentence

on average

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  • Teams now on average, start their drives at roughly the 31-yard-line.
    — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Low pay—about forty thousand dollars a year, on average—played a major role in the turnover.
    — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Its research has shown that, on average, almost two pubs closed every day in the first three months of this year.
    — Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Tickets on the site for the third-place match are on average $2,313.
    — Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 14 July 2026
  • In both groups, on average, people did fewer than half the steps correctly.
    — C. Michael White, The Conversation, 7 Aug. 2026
  • That is 1,438 arrests per day on average in the month of June.
    — Luke Barr, ABC News, 21 July 2026
  • But on average, Stewart played just 21 snaps per game as a freshman.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The county has not released estimates of how much each tax credit would be worth on average.
    — Ilana Arougheti july 23, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2026
  • Folks are now coming in between 14 and 18 times a year, on average.
    — Dallas Morning News, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2026
  • So a grandchild is 60 years away from the grandparents, on average.
    — Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • But meetings as close as this one are quite rare, occurring on average once about every 40 years.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 3 July 2026
  • One study found that participants who reduced their sleep time by just over an hour every night for six weeks gained about a pound on average.
    — Jenessa Connor, Health, 20 July 2026
  • Across more than 140 species, primates that ate fruit had larger brains on average than their meat- or leaf-eating peers.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Yet, firms with the role earn on average only a 5% higher return on their AI spend.
    — Simon Hill, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Trump's approval rating ranges from about 39% to 41% on average.
    — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 24 July 2026
  • People in the Blue Zones eat at least four times as many beans as Americans do on average.
    — Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 July 2026
  • That’s the equivalent of paying $279 a month more on average.
    — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 29 July 2026
  • Adults, on average, have gotten larger, which makes being in an airline seat even less comfortable.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 10 July 2026
  • The first hurricane of the year, on average, forms during the second week of August.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • Based on these numbers, on average, caregivers now receive only two hours (roughly) of training per month.
    — Jeff Beck, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • The newspaper's analysis found such killings occurred on average once every five days.
    — Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 14 July 2026
  • State firms underperform private firms on average and can create fiscal risks.
    — James Broughel, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • September also ranks as the worst month of the year for the S & P 500, on average.
    — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 13 July 2026
  • Seats have gotten smaller at the same time that Americans, on average, have gotten larger.
    — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 22 July 2026
  • Partial eclipses, when the moon covers only a portion of the sun, are more common than total eclipses, occurring on average two times a year.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Yellowstone records a couple of bison attacks every year, on average.
    — Mead Gruver, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2026
  • Analysts on average expect strong profit growth from all three companies.
    — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 29 July 2026
  • What tends to work a little better on average is when the live-action film is produced as more of a hybrid with the techniques that made the director’s name.
    — Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The Tracebit Canariens, on average, alerted the start of an attack within eight minutes.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026
  • The trials included more than 91,000 adults who were followed for about five years on average.
    — Rob Williams, EverydayHealth.com, 27 Aug. 2026

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